Several letter writers, most recently Michael Russo, assert that Obamacare requires taxpayer funding of contraception. This is inaccurate. It requires insurance companies to cover contraception in their policies. Many states, including New York, require this.

Providing coverage for contraception, as many have pointed out, does not require a person to use it. We are in the modern world, folks, and being able to have contraception is fundamental to a woman’s control over her life, and to the need to control our human population, which is now 7 billion. It was less than 2.5 billion when I was born.

Needless to say, we are having a tremendous impact on the world upon which we depend for our own survival and that of our children.